Pick, Arnold

Pick, Arnold

(pik)

Czechoslovakian physician, 1851–1924.

Pick's disease

Dementia associated with atrophy of the frontal and/or temporal lobes of the brain. The disease has three variants: one in which affected patients develop a progressively worsening fluent aphasia; one in which aphasia is not fluent; and one in which loss of social skills and intellectual functions, apathy, and disorientation are most prominent.

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